The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 30, 1939, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Kry West Citizen | BLISHIN THANKSGIVING THOUGHTS Some of the people of ythe United Leuas celebrated Thanksgiving Day on | | the twenty-third and others are giving ex- pression to grateful appreciation of bless- ; ings from a Supreme Being today. The people of this great nation have fibrida: aa aboonaiclbassaaiter | much to be thankful for. os epg Se | immense wealth, as compared to other} Tani ecuae| In cexel nivale detuaitesoen | peoples and enjoying the benefits that | | come from vast natural resources, we have CO., INC. | President and Publixher it Business Manager zen Building Ann Streets Key West and Monroe t n_ of all news dispatches credited! to wise credited in this paper and also | every reason to give a day of the year to | the solemn ceremony of returning sincere | bounty | that has been poured out upon the United | --$10.00 Months 3 | acknowledgment to God for the Months RS, nth 5 : aicnaiaii wasas | States of America. kkngwn on “avian tipi ; | The liberty that is enjoyed N | country contrasts strangely © with | tyranny that runs rampant in many lands. a a ee eee | This ‘great gift to the individual comes to are ts @ line. discus. | US Without much exertion on our part and aes te ae ile oe mene! | most of us enjoy freedom as a gift from those who have preceded us in the world. Naturally, if one reflects at all, there is | bound to be an appreciation of this great boon and a desire to express the feeling in | services dedicated to the giver of all gifts. —_ Made NOTICE is of thanks, resolutions of etc, will be charged for at IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. | Airports—Land and Sega. Consolidation of County and City Governments. A Modern City Hospital. | ple have suffered material. losses in the cause of the unbounded resources that nature has made available to us. The | utilization of the fruits of the earth by the | present generation is often foolishly ex- | travagant but, nonetheless, they the many comforts and conveniences that are ours, Every individual, a Supreme Being, must blessings that come to him, or her, in the course of a year. While we humbly wor- ia See Hopes for peace persist. You'll be surprised how soon you will be reading “Shop Early” slogans again. Appointing cornmjttees is one thing; getting them to work together is another. | j: ular expression to this sentiment in a public and official manner. ly, the significance of Thanksgiving has become lost to some individuals who take | it in stride as another holiday but this can- not vitiate the occasion for others. In Key West the people reverently turn their eyes toward the Heavens, from whence cometh their all, and . fervently give thanks to God for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which is being at- | tained in a large manner by more and | more of our people. HIGH COURT VACANCY For a fifth time since President Roose- velt has been in office, a vacancy in the United States Supreme Court has occurred, this time through the death of Associate Justice Pierce Butler, the last but one of the court’s conservative members, the other being Justice McReynolds. It isn’t love that makes the merchant vessels hug the shores. Not under present conditions. Hatreds having been shape, whipped into war may break out between Ger- many and the Allies any time now. The Russians seem inclined to carry heir fight to the Finnish.—The Key West Citizen. At least Moscow has decided note to Russia.—Times-Union. The war is said to be costing Great Britain a million dollars an hour. Gee! hat’s almost as bad as the WPA.—San- wd Herald. A thankless situation, either here or over there. Tuesday this column hinted about the appearance of the 1940 calendars, being} curious how the Thanksgiving Days were treated. Several came in to the sanctum nesota farm on St. Patrick’s Day, 1886, : fs : the son of Patrick and Mary Butler. Prior ss uahpeaatiy aes ignored both the Franks- | +, his elevation to the nation’s highest court giving and the Thanksgiving days. That | in 1923, he practiced law in his tart of the lithogrphers. | state, and was counsel in numerous im- | portant railroad cases, both in this coun- try and in Canada. He was an able jurist, who staunchly upheld the traditional in- terpretations of the Constitution, as dis- _ It appears that Finland is doomed, ugh it is also apparert she will go} cown with flags flying and may even give in this | the : last decade our come-back is assured be- | explain | who acknowledges recognize the | ship our Creator at all times it is fitting | that on Thanksgiving Day we give par- | Unfortunate- | Justice Butler was born on a Min- | native | a better account of herself than Poland, tinguished from the so-called liberal lean- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | Oe I ee yy) | Highlights Of Florida By ‘KENNETH FRIEDMAN Blessed with | While the United States and its peo- | | | i JEWISH ARE' NORMALLY LIGHT IN COLOR, THE S00 POUND BLINO\ SPECIMEN AT MARINE STUDIOS NEAR ST- AUGUSTINE, 1S WOW BLACK TO CONFORM WITH ITS SURROUNOINGS WHICH, TO 1% RRE! ORR + MIANY FISH CAN CHANGE colde 7 SUITTHEM2 ENVIRONMENT. w. EW “ne i Fe THE ISLAND CITY WE HAVE been requested tojern movie the other\day we were | ask that the city do something |suddenly struck with the fact | about the zoning of population. that their canvas covered wagons | |In this good old southern town] have the same principle -as Key | jcolored people are said to be west commercial fishing boats. | etting a little too fresh by this! | TODAY’, DAILY 1Z certy,, Down Duval, especiclly,/ Many of these boats use canvas | 5 Qu their apparent ownership of the |covers, which shade'from the sun,! Can you answer seven of these sidewalk leaves many wondering | keep off the wind. ten Test Question? Turn to Page 4 for Answers about the new change; Agee) lately there has been a large in- , MARATHON is getting to be a! flux of negro population moving |“hot spot”. Sailors from the fleet | 1, into houses on Whitehead street, ae journey up there to “pitch” | 2. a good one. . .Archie Thompson which is one of the city’s prin- : cipal thoroughfares and the lo-|Tecently established a wholesale! 3. «Ever notice | jcation of many nice residences, |8tocery company. Making negroes “deputies” or/|the little rhumba band made up; 4, lug Men”. as they are called,/0f tattered youngsters. They |didn’t help much. They’re get-|lurk in some dark showcase and ting a bit chesty over this. The When a tourist approaches up “G-Men”, however, with their swells their musical twanging | greater experience with their and bumping of the Cuban own race have aided police earns | great deal and make for a more! PRS ‘efficient police department, 2f| ISLAND CITY POPULATION: their offices have other draw-|Bascom Grooms is pretty well backs. ! \known for being an interesting techies jtalker, and the genial Electric THINGS we have found out’ Company president -@lways ac- about the reporting game, which companies his lengthy talk with are good rules for just about |experiences of his stay in the in- everything in life: When they teresting Old South among the bawl you out listen patiently. |the Georgia coast aristocrats and When they start to cool off tind |in interior Georgia. . Berlin Saw- out if you have really offended yer is tops in talks. The veteran or not. If you haven’t, close the | barber keeps the show going conversation quietly and friendly. | whether it is a squirming young- 10. If you have, remedy' the situa-| ster with tow ‘headed pate or a tion. . .Don’t ever threaten un- drunken sailor who’ wants a less someone gets “nasty”, then) shave whether he needs one or “call” him. . .Let the other fel- not. TODAY’S | COMMON ERROR Never say, “Whom did you say won?”; say, “who. ‘What is a micrometer? Of which country is sea the capital? In what year did the ea Revolution occur? What proportion of U. S. Senators are elected bien- nially? Who defeated Gene Tunney for the world’s heavy- weight boxing champion- ship? Is Florida East or West of the Panama Canal? Can a person be a _ citizen of a state of the U. S, can citizen? What is the correct pronun- ciation of the word real- tor? Who was Commander in- Chief of all the United States armed forces dur- ing the World War? How many teams are there Leagues? wnasnene THE LITTLE ORPHAN -Otto Kirchheiner .is always without being an Ameri-| in the two Major Baseball | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1939 ~ PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expre: sions of views of its rea ers, but the editor reserves ii The writers ad confine the words. Signature of the writers m ¢ letters and be ed unless requested o “A PLAGUE ON BOTH—” Editor, The Citizen: As an ex-service man, and be-| |ing neither a Legionnaire or a/ | National Guardsman, I cannot | refrain from expressing my dis- ‘gust for the disgraceful squabble | being carried on in your columns, | by members of these two parties. | As persons having some know- ledge of military affairs they; | should know that in the regular | army “bringing discredit upon the military service” is a some- what serious offense, and that! | their actions in this matter so far can only result in severe critic ism of the units concerned, es-} | pecially in times like these. There is absolutely no excuse for Lt. Roberts, except that he ; allowed the heat of his feelings | to over-rule his better judgement when heckled about an unim- | portant incident. | | There is even less excuse for |the Legion. They should be old enough to know better, and do | not need to stand on an offended} ; dignity. They will gain nothing save ridicule and discredit from {such letters as that published in |today’s issue, for, in direct pro-| | portion as they have served their | {country in times.of war, they are secure in their position and need | not defend it. | As a close reader of The Citi- zen, I believe a satisfactory ERS SE planation was given as to why/| ;the National Guard could not; parade with the Legion. Yet "they chose to be offended and/| went over the heads of the local! (Officers to send two telegrams about the matter. { | . May I suggest that the Legion | should re-consider, and take no further action, and that you should publish in your columns a genuine apology from both Lt. Roberts and the Legion. Sincerely, A READER. Key West, Fla., Nov. 28, 1939. THANKSGIVING FOR SUFFERING | Editor, The Citizen: -If we have received good * things at the hand of God, why should we not re- ceive evil?”—Job 11:10. To return thanks for good things is easy: cats purr when petted, ferocious police-dogs lick the hand of the feeder and even| some poisonous reptiles will show | affection to their carers. But when men and beasts are ill-| treated, it is natural to expect Tevenge. In the Old Law we} find saintly persons, like Job,! when greatly afflicted, exclaim- ing, “. . .the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. . .blessed | be the name of the Lord”—Job 1-21.. j In the New Testament the Re- | deemer, who might have saved || PAPER jus without pain and ruled the earth in wealth and power, be- came the “Man of Sorrows”, choosing the most cruel and ig- pnominious death, possible, to give us an example to bear patiently our trials, poverty, sickness and opposition, which God permits, being often the result of the laws of nature, our own faults or er rors, as well as those of others. The Master taught us to bless those who persecute us: He and the first Christian martyr prayed for those who put them to death. In recent years a chaplain at a leper colony was stricken with the “grey” disease, which lasts so long and kills the body inch by inch. When the specialist of the 4,000 patients had told him that ha had become a leper, he raised his eyes to Heaven, muttering, “Thanks be to God!” To bear. crosses patiently is true Chris- ianity: to thank God fer them is heroic. War, Peace, Pain While Cain in Europe sheds his brother’s blood, while planes drop bombs and firing doth not cease, we thank Thee, Lord, for Life and Liberty, for Products plentiful. . Our Country’s Peace. ¢ 4::¢.8 “If we receive good things from God”, saith Job, “should we not bless Him too for suffering?” So, too, dear Lord, I thank Thee for all Pain. In trials, too, my hymn of thanks I'll sing. A MIDGET JOB. Key West, Fla., Nov. 30, 1939. Subscribe to The Citizen—20c | weekly. SECOND SHEETS 500 Shects for | 50c | | MANILA, 8¥xll | TYPEWRITING 500 Sheets for 75c — THe The Citizen Bldg. PHONE 51 but utter destruction is definitely the fate } ings of the court in recent years. of the little republic near Russia., It is not With the appointment of his succes- omprehensible that the Finnish David | sor, President Roosevelt will have named 1 conquer the Russian Goliath. | five of the Supreme Court’s nine members, - : all of whom may be depended upon to ap- Harvard and Princeton, which have | prove New Deal legislation, however radi- rom time to time permitted the appear- | cal it may appear to more conservative ance of representatives of all major poli- | | citizens. Thus the objective sought by the tical beliefs, have refused this privilege to | | President in his unsuccessful attempt to Earl Browder, the Communist leader, on | revamp the court through legislation will ibe ground that he is at present under in-| jaye peen attained through the death or ditnent for a criminal offense against the | resignation of former members. law of the United States. It seems to this | In the meantime, however, the Con- writer he should be deprived of speaking | | gress has become somewhat more con- publicly anywhere in the United States, | servative, and it is to Congress the coun- net because of the indictment hanging | try must now look for protection against over him, but for his subversive utterances the more radical element. So, we may see against our form of government, like the | ty, ship of state kept on an even keel, recent statement that the United States is despite the contending forces of “right” “ripe for its transition to socialism.” | and “left.” If you don’t see what you want ‘in| Key West ask for it. A few days ago this \ column asked to have the Umbrella tree transplanted from Australia to this islnd ity. Since we already had the bread- fruit tree and the sausage tree, we thought | troublesome commerce raiders. it desirable to have a shady place where to | The German vessels, carrying 11-inch ale ourselves and wished for the Um- guns, where other cruisers carry eight- brella tree which exudes an aroma similar | inch guns, are speedy enough to dodge all to raspberry jam. Miss Molly Parker in- the ships of Great Britain and France ex- forms us that at her place she has an Um- cept five. rella tree about 15 feet high but has not | It should not be forgotten that the omed_as yet. The Umbrella tree be- | yalue of so-called pocket battleships lies in ngs to the family of Bvrassaia actin- their eommerce raiding. They are not ophylla and derives its familiar name from | worth much in a stand-up fight against the appearance of the leaves which are ar- | dreadnaughts, which can blew them out of xanged like the ribs of an umbrella. ithe water, — NEW CRUISERS The German pocket-battleships, loose jn the oceans of the world, cause Amer- ican naval experts to plan the construction Te, of a ship, designed to take care of such | low think he is the big shot. Your | education will be improved by listening, anyway, and _ besides that’s. your job. . Dealing with} a large public you've got to en- dure much. At fhe’ same ‘time you'll learn much. . .Watch out | for the flatterers who want something out of you in exchange for back pats. . .There are many in civic guise who have axes to, | grind. Dull their axes off. . | Tone down the hell raiser. . . | Make your stories brief. Noone wants to read bull. -Key West would like :a -gos- sipy paper slant to most of their articles. . .Keep your finger on all rumors. Check responsible sources for the facts. . .Try not to get wearied when the big shot | starts sounding off on himself | and at the same time is not giv-| ing you further factual news. ee him toward the facts again .Try to keep a straight face | when the politician tells you how) |honest and straight he is and | |you know different. . .Book’for ania behind every thing. News} importance ‘will be aided. trange | action cf many may be interpret, /éd by deeper’ motives. . Finally, | | think of your greatest responsi- | | bility: informing the public cor- rectly. First kingfish of the season was brought in yesterday, | them down. Few yellowtail were Hit the point}. ALONG THE WATERFRONT: looking for someone to kid and has a great time doing it. . Ladd, tubby. faced and” bold \ voiced, once known as the “‘silver tongue; or: of Key West” al- ways has @ hearty greeting. Ross Sawyer looks at you when. approaching as if to say, “What the heck do you want” then breaks down before ‘questions, and answers voluminouély. . | Jerry Trevor at the bank is ever- chipper. He is the’ one from ;whom you get permission to get some of the bank’s money out. . : Joe Pearlman, Key West Mer- chants Association president, lis- tens in to every bright idea whether it is worth a thin dime or no. . .Quiet John Gardner often gets agitated over lack of | civic spirit here and .there. | Peeeececvcecsesseseceoes: Today’s Birthdays | } e eeesce |. Frederic W. Wileof Washing- | ton, D. C., journalist and _broad- caster, bern at da Forte, Ind., 66) years’ ago. Gov. Henty Hornér_of Mlinois, | >born in Chicago; 61-yearsago.. _ Charles E, Hughes,-Jr., of New | | York, lawyer, son of the Chief | Justice, born in New York, 50 years Philadelphia and Boston, presi- a seven dent of the International Society We are joyful and very gay, }pounder. Cold weather drives /of Christian Endeavor, born at Because there’s much to be |Portiand, Oreg. 99 sts go. ‘Frank @eeeee ago. Rev. Dr. Daniel A. ‘Poling of| We feel the chill of the wintry At The Christmas Tree He sat there so glum, in 2. down-hearted way, The poor. litle fellow Had nothing to say. Around us the light From the Christmas Tree shown, The others were happy— The young and the grown. But no song cf cheer Could you find in his face; This poor, little “shaver” We'd brought to our place. I moved with great care ’Till I stood by his side, I knew without looking A great dream had died. His toys were all there, Everyone bright and gay. I don’t think he saw them— “They were’ far, far away. Then from his lips With a tear in his eye, He whispered so faintly A heart wringing cry. The one thing he’d asked Would ‘santy’ today Bring Mother and Daddy, ‘Who'd just gone away. SAMMY GOBLE. °° id VING i \seceasespanecossesceses air, thankful for, eecececceses IR fast, good-looking shaves at a sa’ . the new Thin Gillette is the biade for you. Selling at only 10c for 4 ... this blade thas super-keen edges of a radically improved kind. And it’s made of easy- flexing steel hard enough to cut glass. ‘That's why it shaves tender skin smoothly without smart and outlasts ordinary blades two to one! Buy a package from your caught, the haul being mostly in| Lance Pag ci orlict of jmackerel and margot fish. -|Columbia, noted in numbers. When a gull gets a Jago. | the world, choice morsel the pelican seizes! Donald ‘Ogden Stewart, novel-| We are so glad today, it around the neck and ced ets Toeen: At Rolemnlii Clio, 6 (etaaiie here at: Rae, we ‘can the bird until it drops the food. | years ago. worship God, Gulls show where large pee ecg Hii, born |Gulls and-pelicans are inereasing |at Parkersburg, W. ‘Ve, 161 years|Our country’s at peace with all |.